As Anise's recent; conversation partner headed off in the same direction as everyone else, so found that the last few stragglers on the docks were also heading that way. She and Oki would soon be all alone on the docks, with no further sign of anything relating to the trip. Her confidence in her decision to stay put started to waver. "Well...maybe we can just go to the corner there, see what's around it. The docks will still be in sight if someone else shows up..." she said uncertainly to Oki.
The Zoroark had his ears perked in the direction of the group. His hearing was better than hers. And he clearly caught the sound of surprise and excitement. Whatever was in that direction did not seem to be frightening or dangerous, so there did not seem to be any harm in following them. When Anise trotted after the group. he padded along beside her, no more wary than usual.
As they rounded the corner, Anise had to stop and stare. The contraption in front of them was certainly not the hot-air balloon advertised, but a much more fantastical flying contraption. It was apparently the craft they'd be riding on this trip, because the group was already boarding it, clambering across one wing onto the deck. She had no particular reason to doubt that this was where they were intended to go, having missed any explanation or introduction that might have been given, so she and Oki followed them on.
When met by a Machamp offering to take her back, Anise politely declined. "No thank you," she told the pokemon. "I'm used to carrying my bag, and it has my medical supplies. In case they're needed, I'd like them with me." The Machamp seemed to have no problem with this, and moved on to collect other bags.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:50 am
Sienna continued her conversation with Valarie as they walked; one of them had noticed the docks were suddenly abandoned, the group had wandered off after the mysterious man and found an even greater anomaly to gather around: a behemoth of an airship. Skylar and Sienna took in the site of the ship; huge, swollen balloons grew out of it to hold the craft aloft in the air, with almost menacing wooden wings to steer the beast. It was not at all the cute and cheerful hot air balloon that they thought they signed up for. This ship was a monster. It made Sienna and her bird a little uncomfortable, but curiosity got the best of Sienna, and she persuaded Skylar to continue onwards with her.
The pair boarded the ship and took in the area. It was far more ornate and cozy than Sienna expected. Skylar watched the work-pokemon cautiously, who knew if they were like the houndoom or eccentric hoothoot? He hadn't met a lot of strangers and the two he met today weren't exactly ones he was comfortable with being around.
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"Wow," Sienna said, still taking it all in. Then she remembered her conversation with Valarie. "Oh yeah, like I was saying, since you're so new to each other, I think you need to set up some boundaries. Show him you don't like being pushed around, pretty much."
Remmy stop running around and look up at Cara with a sad face. "No Ice cream?" He said sadly at her. He didn't like it when people said he had to wait for sweets. He put Squeek on the ground and look up are Cara with a mad face. "Why?" He look at the other girl and smile. "Seee she wants Ice cream too! ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM HOO HA HA!" He said as he pointed to Michelle.
Squeek look at the other pokemon and giggle.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:43 pm
Ryuukishin
mewrose
Area: Airship Interacting with: Genesis/Eliza, Anise and Oki
Corbin nodded and began walking. He had to stop when he felt a tug on his shorts. "Hm? Oh hang on Eliza." He called looking down at Aaron. Apparently someone had caught his interest. "What is it kid?" He asked.
Aaron tugged on Corbin's shorts to get his attention. When he had it he pointed over to a Zoroark and its trainer. He had never seen such a pokemon and was interested in it.
"Hm?" Corbin looked at where his Riolu was pointing and spotted the Zoroark and the girl with it. "Oh? Interested in that Zoroark. Guess we can see if they want to join us. Hang on Eliza... I'm going to see if someone else wants to join us as we explore." He walked over to Anise and cleared his throat. "Um excuse miss. I was wondering if you were interested in exploring with Eliza and I? My Riolu is interested in your pokemon and this would be a good chance for him to learn about a Zoroark."
Aaron stayed behind Corbin and peeked out to look at Anise and Oki. He stared hard at Oki for a moment before shyly ducking behind Corbin again.
As Cadence reached the airship she stared up at it in awe. Well, this was certainly not what she had been expecting! Looking down at Amaryllis she motioned for her pokemon to go ahead of her and follow the other trainers up onto the ship. Sticking close behind, both of them were soon standing on deck and she looked at all of the pokemon. "Oh wow! Ammy look! I haven't seen some of these pokemon in years!" She turned to look at Cara as she reached the deck, and Remmy soon after. "This thing is amazing!" she exclaimed to Cara as she tried to discern the uses for different parts of the ship from where she was standing.
Soon a Machoke had appeared and was offering to take her things but she declined politely. "No thank you, I'll hang on to them. I never know when I might need something out of my bag." She did however, pull out a poffin and offer it to the pokemon as a sort of "tip" for being so friendly.
Remmy was going on about ice cream and when he turned and started to give some attitude to Cara she stepped in. "Remmy, we just got here, you need to be patient ok? We don't even know where the kitchen is yet. Once we find it we will get some ice cream for everyone. How does that sound?" Cadence was reminded of her own little brother by Remmy's actions and it tugged at her heart a little bit. She wondered what her brother was doing now and if he had gained his own pokemon companion yet.
She shoved the thoughts aside, one day she would get back home and visit. Today, however, was not that day.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:57 pm
Dizzy_Kat
Location: Airship Interacting with Lex/Anyone
Walk the plank… Lex kept back, waiting till the wingsail was clear enough he didn’t have to worry about trip and sliding into the water below. Hollin shifted on his pack, giving a soft disgruntled cooing noise at the large expense of water below. Wet puff ball did not go over well, though the cottonee smelt like laundry instead of fur.
“I think hellspawn is a bit harsh, but it does suit them well.” Hmm, pokemon, pokemon, pokemon everywhere, Lex glanced about catorgerizing the pokemon around him. Firetypes, flying, fighting… well, he hoped none of them went mad. Hollin was at a type disadvantage here. “Do you see any trainers?”
He reached back, dragging his hands through his curls. “Care to explore a bit?” He questioned and held onto his bag a bit tighter. No, he was going to keep his bag, thank you massive fighting type.
A single step from the fourteen year old prompted Rho to descend from Magnolia's shoulder for the first time since Motterossa. His light landing caused his trainer to stare at him in surprise, but he only returned her glance with hooded eyes.
"Rho, you aren't coming?" she asked with a tilt of her head.
He blinked and affirmed in the only vernacular he could -- two nods.
"Oh, well, okay." she said. "I'll be with Laurence, then."
Rho departed without so much as a goodbye; searching out the most cramped and cushioned cubby to hunker down in. If the vessel the were on decided to vertical, screw everyone else, he was ensuring his own safety!
Magnolia turned back to Laurence. "Let's start from the back and work our way up. There really isn't much to see up here," she told him before departing to the rear end of the airship.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:55 pm
Location: Inside Airship Interacting with: Anyone (Quote me and Fifi will happily gush at you and/or follow along with you!)
"Eee, it's so pretty!" Fifi gushed as she fluttered around, apparently too overwhelmed by her surroundings to actually do much more than sort of drift aimlessly in a highly energetic fashion. Alastyn followed her like a faithful puppy, sniffing anything that looked like it might hide a sugar cube.
Anise was sort of looking around aimlessly, trying to get her bearings on this strange ship, when someone addressed her. She turned towards the other trainer, and smiled at his offer. "Sure. that sounds nice," she replied. "I certainly haven't been on anything like this before, and I wouldn't even know where to start looking. I'm Anise, and this is Oki," she said, indicating the Zoroark.
Oki had been looking around at the various pokemon working the ship, but determined that, at least for now, they seemed to be quite devoted to doing their work. The aircraft, though an unusual shape, seemed to be sound and safe to walk on. His evaluation of the situation was interrupted when he heard himself mentioned, and he looked at the other trainer and his Riolu. It seemed the smaller pokemon was shy though, since he stayed behind his trainer's legs. Well, if the younger pokemon was interested in him, no harm in at least being polite. <"Hello. I am Okikurimi, or Oki. Nice to meet you,"> he said, swishing his tail idly.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:54 pm
Nanashi Kage Enjeru
Location: Inside Airship Interacting with: Fifi
Vana wandered along the wing of the ship giggle, this was fun! When she made it inside and saw the pretty rooms she gasped "Oooh they are so pretty!" She giggled and drifted around happily with Fifi.
Location: Inside Airship Interacting with: Anyone, Vana
"This is so cool!" Fifi said to Vana. "I was so excited about the balloons, but this is so much bigger! Oh, I wonder how many fire pokemon they have keeping the balloon full! Want to go look?" Fifi asked with her hands clasped excitedly under her chin.
Cara laughed at Cadence's exuberance, she had to admit, there were lots of Pokemon she hadn't seen in a while; both the Ship's and Trainers'. She saw Meowth, Riolu, Ponyta, Joltik, and so many others, it was amazing. "I have to agree, this place is stunning, I've never seen anything like it. And here I thought we would all be stuck in a bunch of hot air balloons."
Cara sighed at Remmy. It was a good thing she was good with kids. "Well, you have to wait because first, it doesn't look like they're serving food right now and second like Cadence said, once we get settled in." A thought occurred to Cara then, "Speaking of which, it might be a good idea to find some place to hang out and rest. Maybe we should see if there are any free cabins available?" She suggested to the others.
Spirit giggled at the Emolga, although coming from her, it sounded more like an odd chirp and buzz. < I can understand that, I like sweet stuff too and I really like it when Cara shares her fruit with me. You might wanna consider trying to be a bit more calm than your human sometimes though...it looks like his over excitability could get him into trouble...>
Yusaki would have been among the first to test the wing's integrity and explore the ship. But now it seemed like she'd be lucky to make it onto the ship.
Upon the realization that she was expected to walk across the death trap of a wing, Korou had planted herself firmly on the ground and refused to move an inch. After quite a bit of coaxing had failed, Yusaki resorted to more physical measures and had finally gotten her arms around the Mightyena's torso. Korou didn't resist, far to fond of her trainer to hurt her, but she had hopped the effort would deter her from going through with this plan.
No such luck. With great effort, step by careful step, Yusaki lugged the Mightyena onto the wing, and eventually onto the deck. She set her down gently, albeit none too gracefully, and gladly handed her luggage over to the Machamp.
"Why thank you," her gaze flitted back and forth, "So many pokemon here, but I don't see any other people aside from us passengers..." She took off down the staircase, curious about the rest of the ship. Korou stood up with a dignified shake of her fur, and trotted after her trainer, resigned to the fate of being on the ship for now.
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:48 am
Nanashi Kage Enjeru
Location: Airship With: Baron, Fifi
Kytti smiled at the energitic girl and asked, "How are you liking the adventure so far?" Prinplup came up beside her and grunted happily as he nudged Kytti's side. "This is Baron, he loves to explore, would you mind some company looking around?" Kytti asked.
Location: By Airship --> Boarding Airship Interacting With:Anise, George, Anyone
Korinna looked up in awe, marveling at the machine for its aesthetics; though part of her seriously doubted the air worthiness of it. Cleo was rather oblivious or indifferent as she yawned and promptly sat on top of her trainer's feet. Kori sighed in affectionate annoyance as she picked up the eevee and turned around to look over her shoulder at the girl on the dock.
People were starting to board, and she was still hanging back, as if unsure. Not that Kori had met the odd stranger, otherwise she might've been more cautious, but with such a large crowd pushing towards the ship there was a sense of safety in such numbers. She did her best to wave the girl towards her, but the crowd pushed her onwards towards the waiting wing.
This... didn't look good. Swallowing nervously while still clutching Cleo, she scurried across the wing as quickly as she was able, not daring to breathe until she cleared to the other side. Only then did she sigh in relief and wave off the poke'mon that seemed to be handling luggage. She'd only brought her messenger bag after all. What was that poke'mon anyway? And was this trip really going to be this long? Crap.
Turning to look over the railing at the dock again, she couldn't see the girl from earlier, but... was that George? She recognized him, a trainer she'd battled before. She raised a hand and waved frantically to try and get his attention, though Cleo didn't approve of this and started to flail.
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